Suzana Turk leads the Photonic Sensor Systems Discipline to develop and transition next generation material and structural state awareness technologies for Defence platform monitoring, including under extreme environmental conditions in air, maritime and space domains. Suzana received her Bachelor Degree in Engineering Materials from Monash University Australia in 1998 and her career as a research scientist at Defence has spanned 23 years. She specialised in structural aerospace alloys developing a fundamental understanding for how materials processing and microstructure influences thermal, mechanical and corrosion performance of aerospace structures that operate in increasingly demanding environments. She led research programs designed to assess the performance of metallic materials and technologies in the new generation military aircraft.